The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 22, sentence 42
The family, believing it to be another of Juan’s tricks, beat and scolded the poor boy.
Who acts: family, Juan · What happens: believe, scold, trick · To what, where: money, poor boy, family
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Juan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 family | det |
| 2 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 believing | punct |
| 4 | believing | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 family | acl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believing | obj |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 another | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 another | cop |
| 8 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 believing | ccomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tricks | case |
| 10 | Juan | Juan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 tricks | nmod:poss |
| 11 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 10 Juan | case |
| 12 | tricks | trick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 another | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 beat | punct |
| 14 | beat | beat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tricks | conj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 scolded | cc |
| 16 | scolded | scold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 another | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 boy | amod |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 scolded | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 family | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | gerund | the family not said here | money | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | scold | past | the family not said here | the poor boy | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent boy=Theme | ||||
| 4 | trick | Juan | nom trick «act transitive»: poss=agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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